I'm shio, just got banned a few days ago for this new rule. I had a banner that's troll quality ("PC gaming master race, console peasants" stuff), though I've had it for months, and people just didn't care much about, and I thought of it as a tongue-in-cheek humor, never meant it to be serious.
I never knew about this new policy to remove all flamebait/troll banners and crop their size down, which I agree, although I never thought my banners were that offensive.
So 3 days a ago, Machina posted on my wall: "Your sig. falls under the new policy detailed here - http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=112573 . Please change it next time you log on. Thanks."
The next day Seece posted on my wall: "You know if you don't change your sig you'll just get banned", and an hour later he banned me and posted again: "deary me, that's what happens when you're so stubborn"
For the record, I agree with the new policy, and will remove my banners if my account has another chance, but the truth is I rarely check my wall posts (I didn't even know I had new wall posts). I only found out the reason after I was banned :( I was only given 24 hours to remove my banners, which pretty much is a certain ban for me since, as stated earlier, I rarely check wall posts (or any personal messages of any kind on vgchartz).
